The British Battleship. Norman Friedman

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      For the late Horst Feistel, who loved battleships and what he called their zero-speed relatives, land fortifications.

      Copyright © Norman Friedman 2015

      This edition first published in Great Britain in 2015 by

      Seaforth Publishing,

      An imprint of Pen & Sword Books Ltd,

      47 Church Street,

      Barnsley

      South Yorkshire S70 2AS

       www.seaforthpublishing.com

      Email: [email protected]

      Published and distributed in the United States of America and Canada by

      Naval Institute Press

      291 Wood Road

      Annapolis, Maryland 21402-5034

      This edition is authorized for sale only in the United States of America, its territories and possessions and Canada.

      First Naval Institute Press eBook edition published in 2016.

      ISBN 978-1-59114-254-6 (eBook)

       British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

      A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system, without prior permission in writing of both the copyright owner and the above publisher.

      The right of Norman Friedman to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

      Typeset and designed by Ian Hughes, Mousemat Design Limited

      CONTENTS

      6. ‘WE WANT EIGHT’

      7. THE ULTIMATE DREADNOUGHTS

      8. THE EXPORT MARKET

      9. WAR CONSTRUCTION

      10. WAR

      11. A NEW GENERATION

      12. THE INTER-WAR BATTLE FLEET

       COLOUR SECTION: Original Admiralty draughts

      13. THE TREATY ERA

      14. MODERNISING THE FLEET

      15. THE END OF THE TREATIES: LONDON 1936

      16. NEW BATTLESHIPS AT LAST

      17. THE ‘ESCALATOR’ CLAUSE

      18. WAR AGAIN

      19. THE END OF THE BATTLESHIP ERA

      Notes

      Bibliography

      Battleship Data

      List of Ships

      Index

       ABBREVIATIONS

      ACNS = Assistant Chief of Naval Staff

      ACNS(W) = Assistant Chief of Naval Staff (Weapons)

      ADO = Air Defence Officer

      ADT = Assistant DNO (q.v.) for Torpedoes

      AFCT = Admiralty Fire Control Table

      AIO = Action Information Organisation

      AP = armour-piercing

      APC = armour-piercing capped (shell)

      ASD = Admiralty Signal Division

      BAD = British Admiralty Delegation

      BD = between-decks (mounting)

      C-in-C = Commander-in-Chief

      CRBFD = close-range blind fire director

      CCC = Churchill College Cambridge

      CID = Committee of Imperial Defence

      CNS = Chief of Naval Staff

      CO = Commanding Officer

      COW = Coventry Ordnance Works

      crh = calibre radius head

      D of D = Director of Dockyards

      D of N = Director of Navigation

      D of P = Director of Plans

      D of TD = Director of Tactical Division (of Admiralty Staff)

      DAS = Director of Anti-Submarine (Warfare)

      DCNS = Deputy Chief of Naval Staff

      DCT = director control tower

      DEE = Department of Electrical Engineering

      DFSL = Deputy First Sea Lord

      DGD = Director of Gunnery Division

      DNA&T = Director, Naval Artillery and Torpedoes

      DNAD = Director of Naval Air Division

      DNC = Director of Naval Construction

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